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He declined many offers for the rabbinate, but in 1806 accepted a call to Bratislava, Austrian Empire (now capital of Slovakia). In Bratislava, he established a yeshiva, which was attended by as many as 500 pupils. Hundreds of these pupils became the rabbis of Hungarian Jewry. Among them were:

  • Rabbi Yehuda Aszod (Yehudah Ya'aleh), (1794–1866)
  • Rabbi Aharon Duvid Deutsch (Goren Duvid), (1813–1878)
  • Rabbi Dovid Zvi Ehrenfeld (d. 1861), (son-in-law)
  • Rabbi Shmuel Ehrenfeld (1835–1883), (Chasan Sofer) (grandson)
  • Rabbi Aharon Fried (Tzel Hakesef), (1813–1891)
  • Rabbi Chaim Joseph Gottlieb of Stropkov.
  • Rabbi Menachem Katz, (1795–1891)
  • Rabbi Yisroel Yitzchok Aharon Landesberg, (1804–1879)
  • Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein (Kolomea) (Maskil El Dol), (1815–1891)
  • Rabbi Chaim Zvi Mannheimer (Ein Habdoilach), (1814–1886)
  • Rabbi Yehuda Modrin (Trumas Hacri), (1820–1893)
  • Rabbi Menachem Mendel Panet (Maglei Tzedek), (1818–1884)
  • Rabbi Meir Perles, (1811–1893)
  • Rabbi Avrohom Schag (Ohel Avrohom), (1801-1876)
  • Rabbi Dovid Schick (Imrei Duvid) (died: 1890) brother of Moshe Schick
  • Rabbi Moshe Schick (Maharam Schick), (1807-1879)
  • Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger, (1838-1922)
  • Rabbi Avraham Yehuda Hacohen Schwartz (Kol Aryeh), (1824-1883)
  • Rabbi Shimon Sidon (Shevet Shimon) (1815 - 1891), Rabbi of Cifer and Trnava
  • Rabbi Aharon Singer, (c. 1806-1868)
  • Rabbi Avrohom Shmuel Binyamin Sofer (Ktav Sofer), (1815-1872) (son)
  • Rabbi Chaim Sofer (Machne Chaim), (1822-1886)
  • Rabbi Naftali Sofer (Matei Naftali), (1819-1899)
  • Rabbi Shimon Sofer, (1821-1883) (son)
  • Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Spitzer (Tikun Shloime), (1811–1893), (son-in-law), Rabbi of Schiff Shul in Vienna
  • Rabbi Yoel Unger (Teshuvas Rivo), (1800–1886)

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